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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Georgi Geshev discovered that OpenSLP incorrectly handled processing certain service requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSLP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.(CVE-2012-4428)Qinghao Tang discovered that OpenSLP incorrectly handled processing certain messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSLP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.(CVE-2015-5177).Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.